Estimating the prevalence of injecting drug users on the basis of Markov models of the HIV/AIDS epidemic: applications to Italian data

Carla Rossi ()

Health Care Management Science, 1999, vol. 2, issue 3, 173-179

Abstract: This paper addresses some important issues related to the estimation of the extent of injecting drug use. The population of injecting drug (heroin) users in Italy is estimated on the basis of a dynamic model of the health consequences, in particular using AIDS incidence data. The use of the prevalence estimates to monitor the impact of health care and law enforcement interventions is outlined. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Keywords: hidden populations; dynamic models; AIDS epidemic; injecting use of drugs; monitoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1019039912559

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